Question

Oel is laying pipe for a sprinkler system before he plants his lawn. the lawn is a rectangle, 15 feet long and 8 feet wide. he needs to lay a piece of pipe that will run along the diagonal of the lawn. it will divide the area of the lawn into two right triangles. what will be the length of the pipe?

Answer 1

The Pythagorean theorem tells you that length is
.. √(15^2 +8^2) = 17 . . . feet